[rameumptom]

En-Lil,

Your premise that the Gospels were written by the "original prophets" is wrong. You are building up a case based upon a wrong premise. We do not have the "originals" of any scripture, except for the D&C.

And AoF DOES state, "insofar as it (the Bible) is translated correctly." There are no other qualifiers, as the Lord did not give them to us. We learn not only through prophets, but other sources as well (such as science). And science is showing us things that Joseph did not know.

I've mentioned that the Lord gives to all people the amount of truth they are ready for (Alma 29:8), and that would include the LDS. Joseph never claimed to be perfect in his revelations. In fact, he had no problem with going back and improving upon them or correcting them later. Several D&C sections today were actually compiled together from more than one revelation, or were later corrected with new information.

So, let's take your straw man and give him a rest. You can discuss issues, but let's not make liars out of "prophets" who may not have even written the books. And if a few symbolic fables got into the scriptures, so what? Are you one that insists on a God-breathed book? If so, then the LDS Church is not for you, because the Lord has given us living prophets and the Holy Spirit to guide us into understanding what is truth. But we still learn line upon line, precept upon precept. The perfection comes in the next life.